These were produced in collaboration with two local primary schools, Slimbridge and Berry Hill.
WW1 Resources for Key Stage 2
These were produced in collaboration with two local primary schools, Slimbridge and Berry Hill.
Main learning objective: to understand how armed forces personnel in wartime communicated with friends and family.
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Main learning objective: to understand how armed forces personnel in wartime communicated with friends and family.
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Main learning objective: to learn how personal communications were treated in wartime.
Main learning objective: to learn how personal communications were treated in wartime.
Main learning objective: to create and publish a newspaper, demonstrating how British armed forces communicated news and boosted morale.
Main learning objective: to create and publish a newspaper, demonstrating how British armed forces communicated news and boosted morale.
Main learning objective: that in WW1 children collected fruit (blackberries) and other nuts for the war effort and to recognise the associated vocabulary.
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- 4. Lesson plan: Fruit and Nuts [181kb]
- 4a. Fruit and Nuts problems [127kb]
- 4a. Fruit and Nuts problems ANSWERS [128kb]
- 4b. Design a jam jar label [111kb]
- 4c. Jam [133kb]
- 4d. Blackberry and conker word search [140kb]
- 4d. Blackberry and conker word search ANSWERS [148kb]
- 4e. Blackberry and horse chestnut science [121kb]
Main learning objective: that in WW1 children collected fruit (blackberries) and other nuts for the war effort and to recognise the associated vocabulary.
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- 4. Lesson plan: Fruit and Nuts [181kb]
- 4a. Fruit and Nuts problems [127kb]
- 4a. Fruit and Nuts problems ANSWERS [128kb]
- 4b. Design a jam jar label [111kb]
- 4c. Jam [133kb]
- 4d. Blackberry and conker word search [140kb]
- 4d. Blackberry and conker word search ANSWERS [148kb]
- 4e. Blackberry and horse chestnut science [121kb]
Main learning objective: That before aircraft took over the role, airships were used for long-distance travel and in strategic warfare and for the first time and civilians became direct targets in warfare.
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- 5 Lesson plan: Guidelines for the use of Zeppelin [195kb]
- 5a Background to air raids on Britain during WW1 [312kb]
- 5b Zeppelin airships [713kb]
- 5c Letter about a Zeppelin raid [554kb]
- 5d Zeppelin Heading [182kb]
- 5e Attack the Zeppelin [152kb]
- 5f Lighter than Air [1Mb]
- 5g Zeppelin wordsearch [129kb]
- 5h Zeppelin poetry [260kb]
- 5i Make a Zeppelin [166kb]
Main learning objective: That before aircraft took over the role, airships were used for long-distance travel and in strategic warfare and for the first time and civilians became direct targets in warfare.
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- 5 Lesson plan: Guidelines for the use of Zeppelin [195kb]
- 5a Background to air raids on Britain during WW1 [312kb]
- 5b Zeppelin airships [713kb]
- 5c Letter about a Zeppelin raid [554kb]
- 5d Zeppelin Heading [182kb]
- 5e Attack the Zeppelin [152kb]
- 5f Lighter than Air [1Mb]
- 5g Zeppelin wordsearch [129kb]
- 5h Zeppelin poetry [260kb]
- 5i Make a Zeppelin [166kb]
Main learning objective: That during WW1 British & German troops on the Western Front took part in an unofficial truce over the Christmas period.
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Main learning objective: That during WW1 British & German troops on the Western Front took part in an unofficial truce over the Christmas period.
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Main learning objective: To learn about our local war memorial
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Main learning objective: To learn about our local war memorial
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Main learning objective: To find out more about the significance of war memorials to the local community
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Main learning objective: To find out more about the significance of war memorials to the local community
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Main learning objective: To use books and the internet to research and write information about WWI
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Main learning objective: To use books and the internet to research and write information about WWI
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Main learning objective: To find out about life for soldiers in the trenches
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Main learning objective: To find out about life for soldiers in the trenches
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Main learning objective: Writing a postcard in the role of a WW1 soldier
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Main learning objective: Writing a postcard in the role of a WW1 soldier
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Main learning objective: To gain an understanding about how men signed up for the war and to gain an empathy for the young men who signed up
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Main learning objective: To gain an understanding about how men signed up for the war and to gain an empathy for the young men who signed up
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Main learning objective: To capture the initial feelings of young men about to sign up to go to war
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Main learning objective: To capture the initial feelings of young men about to sign up to go to war
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Main learning objective: To learn about the information that could and couldn't appear in messages home
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Main learning objective: To learn about the information that could and couldn't appear in messages home
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Main learning objective: To write a diary extract about life in the trenches
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Main learning objective: To write a diary extract about life in the trenches
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Main learning objective: How did people feel about going to war
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Main learning objective: How did people feel about going to war
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Main learning objective: Design and make a model WW1 trench in a shoebox
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Main learning objective: Design and make a model WW1 trench in a shoebox